Indyfan
12-05-2011, 09:44 AM
I have a 2 year old chip who's been acting violent since 2 weeks ago or so. She started by biting my hand (or mutilating them as I had scratches and bite all over) and causing them to bleed. She made tiny little chipping noises of anger(?) a couple of times while she was biting. After getting some injuries to my hand I started wearing gloves to protect them. That's when she started going for my face. she made a long scratch across my ear and neck, later she bit my nose (two long scratch and bite mark on my nose, bleeding) and clawed the skin near my eyes. Right now my face healed to a level where the wounds are not visible unless one comes close. Yet Kancho is still insecure and tries to bite me. So I started covering my face with a hockey mask and my ears with a hood. Uncomfortable and it may sound crazy but at least it protected me from her bites. Just today she tried to find a way through the cover, it seemed like she was trying to go for my bare skin through the gap between the mask and the hood.
I could no longer stand her insecureness to I locked her back in her cage. She cried a lot when there was no one near her place and when I got close to her cage, she let out little angry squeaks and ran around the cage like mad. I got closer and she but the bars a bit, as if trying to bite me.
This video I just took today should give a general idea, I shot this after putting her back in for the second time. She was a little calmer than I mentioned above the second time i put her back in.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iqdo5dDOeh8
There were times when she was violent but it was always short term, she never acted this violent before and she never went this long.
I keep blaming myself, it feels like I didn't frequently provide toys and that is what's causing her to snap. The cage is in the minimum size btw, I would have loved to build it way bigger but I still live with my parent. My mom's very ignorant on this kind of stuff, never believes anything I say about Chips and thinks a big cage is totally unnecessary. I had some conflicts with her when I built that about a year and a half ago. She wanted me to build it to a minimum cuz she didn't want her house to become a zoo. She is not happy whenever I build a new toy or buy sth for Kancho and whenever I try to calm her down when she cries (or chirps) loudly.
I don't entirly blame mom though, I got my own problems too, feeling lazy to build sth new for kancho would be one thing.
I'm telling you all this cuz I think lack of toys and small cage are the reason for her insecureness, piled up in little kancho and finally exploded in range is what I'm thinking.
If I could make her feel secure again, I'm willing to do anything.
So, Does any of you guys out there know what is causing Kancho's insecureness?
P.S I got one question, Kancho's 2 years old and I hear female chips enter heat when they are 6-12months old. The pet shop owner said she's female when my family bought her but so far even after 2 years, she's not showing any sign of heat.
So I searched up chipmunk genitals and compared it but it wasn't so easy to tell.
I wondered if guys could tell me.
I took a quick shot of her genitals here;
http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x205/Indyfan_2007/IMG_7755.jpg
I could no longer stand her insecureness to I locked her back in her cage. She cried a lot when there was no one near her place and when I got close to her cage, she let out little angry squeaks and ran around the cage like mad. I got closer and she but the bars a bit, as if trying to bite me.
This video I just took today should give a general idea, I shot this after putting her back in for the second time. She was a little calmer than I mentioned above the second time i put her back in.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iqdo5dDOeh8
There were times when she was violent but it was always short term, she never acted this violent before and she never went this long.
I keep blaming myself, it feels like I didn't frequently provide toys and that is what's causing her to snap. The cage is in the minimum size btw, I would have loved to build it way bigger but I still live with my parent. My mom's very ignorant on this kind of stuff, never believes anything I say about Chips and thinks a big cage is totally unnecessary. I had some conflicts with her when I built that about a year and a half ago. She wanted me to build it to a minimum cuz she didn't want her house to become a zoo. She is not happy whenever I build a new toy or buy sth for Kancho and whenever I try to calm her down when she cries (or chirps) loudly.
I don't entirly blame mom though, I got my own problems too, feeling lazy to build sth new for kancho would be one thing.
I'm telling you all this cuz I think lack of toys and small cage are the reason for her insecureness, piled up in little kancho and finally exploded in range is what I'm thinking.
If I could make her feel secure again, I'm willing to do anything.
So, Does any of you guys out there know what is causing Kancho's insecureness?
P.S I got one question, Kancho's 2 years old and I hear female chips enter heat when they are 6-12months old. The pet shop owner said she's female when my family bought her but so far even after 2 years, she's not showing any sign of heat.
So I searched up chipmunk genitals and compared it but it wasn't so easy to tell.
I wondered if guys could tell me.
I took a quick shot of her genitals here;
http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x205/Indyfan_2007/IMG_7755.jpg